Why Proper Ventilation is Essential for Your Home

Proper ventilation ensures your Charlotte, NC home remains comfortable and its indoor air healthy. When you have sufficient ventilation, your home’s air quality will improves and humidity levels will stay balanced. Read on to learn more about how to improve your home’s ventilation for better living and cleaner air.

Why Your Home Needs Proper Ventilation

Over the last few decades, home builders have worked hard to create “tighter” homes, making them less resistant to infiltration from outside air. While homes built this way have become more energy efficient, they also make it difficult for fresh air to enter the home. Without adequate fresh air, homes have an increased risk of developing moisture issues caused by unbalanced humidity issues and the accumulation of indoor pollutants. Contaminated indoor air can cause allergy symptoms to worsen and an increase in respiratory illnesses. The home might also need more heating or cooling to compensate for the humidity issues, resulting in the HVAC system working overtime and experiencing related mechanical failures.

Whole-Home Ventilators Offer an Effective Solution

One of the most effective ways to improve your home’s ventilation is installing a whole-home ventilator. This ventilation system brings fresh air indoors and removes excess moisture. HVAC technicians install the system by adding a duct and a damper to the home’s existing furnace. The damper controls the intake of outside air while removing stale air from the house to maintain adequate ventilation and control humidity and pressure.

Energy recovery ventilators use a heat exchanger that extracts or adds heat to the incoming air to help conserve energy. Energy recovery systems help your home maintain proper ventilation while also helping you to keep your heating and cooling costs in check.

To learn more about the benefits of proper ventilation and if a whole-home ventilator is a good choice for your home, contact Lakeside Heating & Air Conditioning today!